The Chart Room is a small intimate place not far from the Britannia Restaurant where you can enjoy a before dinner drink or listen to a harpist, pianist or string quartet. The music is always soft and gentle.
This evening while watching the ocean roll by, a lady harpist was playing Green Sleeves, and as the sun was setting on our port side, the rays of light seemed to dart from the wave tops to the window in the front almost
jolting me out of my reverie. I could almost see some visions of my life gone by. When I said goodbye to my
parents before I left for the Navy almost 68 years ago and when I returned in 1946 an old veteran of 22,
ready to take on the world. When I married Norma Domnitz in 1947. We were two young people who
thought we knew everything about life. How innocent and wrong we were. However, as in a John Denver
song, "Its been a good life all along and I'm gonna hate to see it end." There are so many memories that
cross your mind on a ship, with a drink in your hand while in the presence of good music.
Today, we cross the Equator. For the non-geographers, this is 0 degree lattitude and is about
the 10th time I crossed including my stint in the Navy. The Capt. conducted his usual
ceremony for novices who crossed for the first time. I guess old age is creeping up because
I almost welcome bedtime much earlier than our World Cruise venture in 2009.
This trip we have been sharing our table with two gals from England, Hazel and Frieda who
are middle age and very inquisitive, with an insatiable desire to find out what our lives are
like in New Mexico. Of course, very few people seem to know where New Mexico is in
the US so I now tell all who listen that we come from Texas which always registers a long
Ahh, the home of Dallas and GW.
Tomorrow, Sunday January 23, we're due in Salvador. An auspicious date since my youngest
was born on that date. Happy birthday Barri! Enjoy the day. Annabelle and I will lift a toast
to you at dinner this evening.
Some trivia....Amerigo Vespucci named Baia de Todos os Santos,(Bayof All Saints)when he
sailed into it on All Saint's Day, November 1, 1501. So much for today's history lesson.
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